 Thorn, this is now but the town of Bristol, but I will make it the city of Bristol : which he afterwards did by erecting it into a bishop's see.  A Book of Bristol Sonnets - Page 89by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1877 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Chilcott - Bristol (England) - 1826 - 270 pages
...gentlemen* to Mr. Thorn's house, and secretly viewed the city, and he said to Mr. Thorn, this is now but the town of Bristol, but I will make it the city of Bristol : which he afterwards did by erecting it into a bishop's see. In Queen Mary's reign, Richard Sharp,... | |
 | John Chilcott - 1840 - 382 pages
...gentlemen, to Mr. Thorn's house, from whence viewing the city, he said to Mr. Thorn, " This is now but the town of Bristol, but I will make it the city of Bristol :" which he afterwards did, by erecting it into a Bishop's see. lu Queen Mary's reign, Richard Sharp,... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - 1872 - 316 pages
...proceeded to Mr. Thome's house, from whence he secretly viewed the city, remarking " This is now but the town of Bristol, but I will make it the city of Bristol." We have to go back to the dark days of the I2th century for the foundation of the abbey, which was... | |
 | Walter Adam Sampson - 1912 - 448 pages
...subsequent to 1534 Henry VIII passed through Bristol incognito, attended by Mr. Thorne, to whom he said, " This is now the Town of Bristol, but I will make it the City of Bristol." Rymer's Fader a says it was made a city in 1542. The same historian refers to Henry VIII making it... | |
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